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Upheaval at Davos changed calculus on finding permanent chair, according to people familiar with discussions

International concerns have mounted over the impact of the country’s economic policies

Several participants in the January meeting said they would have supported a ‘two-sided description’ for the rate outlook

Minutes from January meeting show US policymakers saw risk that price growth will remain above 2%

Kevin Hassett calls report showing US consumers and businesses are facing burden of levies ‘an embarrassment’

But it has shocked Kevin Hassett to his very core

Data increases odds of a BoE rate reduction as soon as next month

Spanish government seeks ‘influential and meaningful position’ at helm of Eurozone central bank

Also in today’s newsletter: JPMorgan plans expansion of branch network and Peru’s Congress removes the country’s interim president

A decline in food, fuel costs and air fares pulled the headline rate sharply lower to 3% in January

Oil, natural gas and synthetic diamond facilities worth a combined $36bn mark crucial progress on pledged financing

The emissions trading system has been a success so far but the next phase will be harder to pull off

Two decades after he wrote it, an economics professor’s thesis is still one of this century’s most prescient

More Fed history (sorry), briefly put

Raising payroll taxes and the minimum wage has hurt young workers

Youth joblessness surges to highest in over a decade

The question is whether it is turning European or Australian. Also in this newsletter, all change in Eurozone labour markets

Also in today’s newsletter: Big Oil executives under pressure to spell out growth plans and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson dies

And neither is inflation

Also in this newsletter: EU cyber chief warns that criminals increasingly are copying state actors’ tactics